Water-faucet.



' Patented Nov. 20, I900. J. P. FARLEY.

WATER FAUCET.

[Application v No. 66|, 966.

filed Mar. 9, 1900.

No Model.)

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NllTE ATENT JOHN P. FARLEY, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THEORAMPTON, FARLEY BRASS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,966, dated November20, 1900.

Application filed March 9, 1900. Serial No. 7.,957. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN P. FARLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invent ed a newand useful Water-Faucet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to water-faucets; and it consists in certain noveland peculiar features of construction and organization, as will behereinafter described and claimed.

The object of the invention is to produce a simple, cheap, durable, andornamental faucet wherein lateral movement of the valvestem iseliminated and the closing operation of the stem is effected gradually,thereby preventing water-hamrner action from taking place andlengthening the life of the valve.

In order that the invent-ion may be fully understood, reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, which show the preferred embodiment ofthe invention, though it is to be understood that I reserve the right tomake such changes in the detail construction, form, arrangement, orproportion of the parts as do not involve a departure from the spiritand scope or sacrifice any of the advantages of the appended claim.

Figure 1 represents, mainly in vertical section, a bathtub faucetembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of thecam-stein. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective View of the valve-stem. Fig. 4is a broken side elevation of the ordinary bib-cock, showing the samewith the bearing for the lower end of the handle-stem.

Similar reference-numerals designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

1 designates the tap bearing against the stand of whatever type fromwhich the fancet projects, and 2 the pipe screwed therein andcommunicating at one end with the supply-pipe (not shown) and internallythreaded, as at 3, at its opposite end.

4 designates the casement of the operative parts of the valve, the samebeing screwed into the threaded end 3 of pipe 2 and provided at said endwith a valve-seat 5. Said casement is also provided at its opposite endswith the .contracted passages 6 7, the former i'orming the valve-seatopening. The chamber 8 between and com municating with said passagescommunicates directly with the discharge-nozzle 9, and vertically abovethe chamber the easement is formed with the tubular arm 10, upon whichis mounted a packing-box 11 of the usual or any preferred construction.The handle 12 has its cylindrical stem 13 projecting centrally throughthe packing-box, wherein it has a bearing, and provided with a bearingcollar or enlargement 14, fitting snugly in the tubular arm 10. Belowsaid collar or enlargement the stem is notched at one side, as at 15,and is formed with the cam 16 and the guide-pin 17, the latter extendingin axial alinement with the body of the stem and centrally of thecasement.

18 designates the valve-stem extending axially of the casement andprovided at its opposite ends with the enlargements 19 2O, fittingsnugly and reciprocally in the passages 6 7 of the easement, saidenlargements being cupped out, as shown at 21 22, respectively, topermit of the passage of the water, as hereinafter explained. At the endof the enlargement 19 the stem is provided witha threaded terminal 23,upon which is clamped by the nut 24 the ball or valve 25, the same beingof segmental form and adapted to be seated on the valve-seat 5, and thuscut oft the passage of Water through the faucet. The upper side ot thestem opposite the tubular arm 10 of the easement is notched, as at 26,to provide the shoulders 27 28, and the portion of the stem thus reducedis formed with a longitudinal slot 29, extending from one of saidshoulders to the other. The cam 16 of the handle-stem is seated in thenotch 26 and bears against the shoulders 27 28, while the guide-pin 17of said stem projects through said longitudinal slot and acts as acentral bearing and guide to insure direct longitudinal reciprocation ofthe valve-stem without lateral vibration, the slot of the valve-stem inturn acting as alower bearing for the handle-stem to prevent vibrationor movement of the same transversely of said slot.

Assuming that the parts are arranged as shown in Fig. 1, it will be seenthat the valve is seated and that the pin 17 of the handlestem occupiesthe rear end of the slot 29 and that if the handle 12 be grasped andturned 7 until it projects in the opposite direction fromthatindicatedin Fig. 1 the cam 16, turning between shoulders 27 28, willexert pressure on shoulder 27 and unseat the valve and permit the waterfrom the pipe to pass through the cupped passages 21 into the easement 4and .escape through the discharge-nozzle 9.

this operation of the valve-stem it will be noticed that it is guided bythe bearingpassages 6 7 and the guide-pin 17 and that when unseated thefront end of the slot engages said pin. By reversingthe operation of thehandle the cam 16 exerts its force against the;

from which passage it is displaced by the advancingvalve and escapesthrough the cupped passages 21.

In Fig. 4, illustrating an ordinary bib-cock, the arrangement andconstruction of the operative parts-namely, the handle-stem andvalve-ste1nare the same, with the exception that I by preference providea seat in the lower part of the easement, as at 17, as an auxiliarybearing for the handle-stem, the guide-pin engaging said bearing-cavity17, as shown.

From the above description it will i be apparent that I have produced awater-faucet embodying the features of advantage enumerated as desirablein the statement of invention.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In a faucet, the easement having a valveseat, a discharge nozzle, and apair of bearing-passages, a valve-carrying stem within the case men t,and provided with cupped bearingsurfaces seated in said passages, apairof shoulders between said surfaces, and a slot between saidshoulders, and a handle-stem suitably j ournaled and provided with anaxial guide-pin extending through said slot, and a cam betweenandengagin'g said shoulders, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN P. FARLEY.

. Witnesses:

H. O. RODGERS, G. Y. THORPE.

